Your task is to locate a primary source article in the field of psychology, read the
article, and examine how the main findings relate to your life.
Purpose: The purpose of this assignment is 1) to develop competence in locating
and identifying scientific psychological literature, 2) to develop competence in
understanding scientific psychological literature, 3) to apply findings of psychological
literature to your life and 4) to gain additional experience with and feedback on
academic writing. Throughout this class, we will emphasize the scientific
underpinnings of psychology. This assignment provides an opportunity to familiarize
oneself with the literature that forms the basis of psychological science and to
examine relationships between this literature and your life.
The paper should be no more than one page long. Margins should be one inch on all
sides. The text should be 10-point, Verdana font. All text should be double-spaced. Use
one or two spaces after each sentence; be consistent throughout the paper. You
should put your full name in a header in the upper right corner of the page, not in
the body of the paper. The title of your paper should be “Personal Application of
Scientific Literature in Psychology”; no other title is acceptable. At the end of your
paper, you should provide a reference for your article in accord with American
Psychological Association (APA) style. The form of APA citation is as follows:
Author last name, Author initials, Author, B. B., & Author, C. C. (publication year).
Title of article. Title of Periodical, volume number(issue number), pages.
This citation will not be included in your page count.
Please use the following headings in your paper:
General topic
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